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Hi,

I am sorry to hear EVE was not your kind of game. I can understand
your dissapointment when it was not the space flight simulator you are
looking for. As you say EVE is more a strategic PVP game in space.
There are many aspect of the game in trading, industry and battle but
your skill as a pilot is not measured in how good you are at reflexes
and "calculate lead and fire", it is more a game of cunning and trying
to predict what your adversaries are going to do.

The phase is slow and the conflicts between player organizations tend
to not only involve military battle but also more stratiegic means
like embargoes, propaganda and goods marketing.

If you have been away from space games and liked the old tiefighter
and xwing titles I really thing you shoulf try out the Freespace and
Freespace II titles from a couple of years ago. Great games that kept
me glued to the joysting for hours.

Regards,
Erik

lloyddbriggs@yahoo.com (dsr) wrote in message news:<b89a4257.0402060844.4ceec327@posting.google.com>...
> No real questions in this post... I just though I'd share my
> experiences...
> 
> I've been playing computer games since the early eighties and I was in
> middle school. I had a TI/99 and my friend had an Apple II, and as I
> grew up I later moved over to IBM PCs. Some of my fonder game memories
> were later (guess early 90s), playing games such as Privateer and Tie
> Fighter.
> 
> Since those days, I've continued to play games, mostly going with the
> popular highly-rated games, which included FPSers, Strategy (Civ), and
> CRPGs. I had great fun with these games, and didn't really think about
> the fact that my last joystick space-sim game was Tie Fighter.
> 
> Then a couple months ago I got DSL, and decided to try an online game.
> After doing some research, I signed on to Eve - Online, thinking it
> would be fun to be back in a space game.
> 
> I quickly had some realizations that this game wasn't providing the
> gaming experience I was looking for. I went to an asteroid field, and
> realized that there was no danger of collision. In fact there was no
> danger of collision with other ships, planets or space stations
> either. During flight and combat, everything was mouse click based.
> Click on target. click on desired orbit range. Click on weapon to turn
> it on (no aiming necessary). Click on reload. To warp somewhere, I had
> to click on the object/location, then choose 'warp to' from the menu.
> Beyond this, there was no control of my ship. To run away from a
> losing battle, my life would depend upon how fast I could click
> through some menus to get to the option to warp away. With point and
> click movement, I didn't have the feeling that I was actually piloting
> my own ship.
> 
> Eve Online has some good things going for it: very impressive graphics
> and an active online community. I'm sure some folks really love it,
> but it wasn't what I was looking for.
> 
> It got me to thinking, what kind of game do I want to play? My free
> time is very valuable, how do I want to use it?
> 
> I enjoy other types of games, but I'm also a little worn out on FPSers
> and CRPGs. I started thinking, where's that fun space sim, where I'm
> in control of my ship? that feeling of space, the dogfights with other
> spacecrafts?
> 
> Doing some research, and reading a lot of old posts in this forum, I
> realized that I haven't played a joystick controlled space sim in a
> long, long time. These games were very fun 10 years ago, but they
> don't have the market presence that they used to have. You have to go
> out of your way to find a joystick controlled space sim.
> 
> Anyway, I'm diving back into joystick space sims. Luckily, I've found
> my old joystick/throttle from 10 years ago in the back of the closet,
> dusted it off, and was happy to realize I could still use it by
> updating it's chip (though I have to wait until the new chip
> arrives!). I've downloaded a bunch of demos. It's time to start
> piloting through space again!
> 
> dsr